Which theory of gravity? Newton's or Einstein's? Or the as yet undiscovered
unified theory?
Bill Silvert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthias Schultz" <[email protected]>
To: "William Silvert" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Isaac Asimov quote/was Gallup poll on evolution
what if the gallup poll question had been "do you believe in the theory of
gravity"?
what you think the responses would have been?
Matt
----- Original Message ----
From: William Silvert <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 4:58:35 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Isaac Asimov quote/was Gallup poll on evolution
I share the feeeling of Wendee and other respondents that "believe" is not
an appropriate word. The problem is that we haven't really come up wth
alternatives that reflect the inherent skepticism of science but that are
also meaningful to the general public. Evolution is a credible theory,
well-supported by evidence, etc., but none of these phrases have much
bite. After all, there is still a lot of common reference to "scientific
proof", and any attempts to revise our language to conform to the way that
scientists think (or should think) will simply weaken our case and be
jumped on by those who argue that the only thngs we really know are that
g*d exists, that everything in the bible/koran/etc. is absolutely true,
and that theirs is the only true faith. Knowledge is power, ain't it?
Bill Silvert
